Yarn-treating machine.



W. J. GOING.

YARN TREATING MACHINE.

APPFICATION mm APR. 6, 1916.

1,287,962. Patented Dec. 17, 918. TEi E'- Fig.1..

A 77 ORA/E Y8 UNITED gTATiEd PATENT @FFHIE.

WILLIAM J. GOING, 0F AMETERDAIZI, NEW YORK, ASEiIGNOIB. TO KLAUDER-WELDON DYEING MACHINE 00., OF YARIDLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

YARN-TREATING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Griginal application filed March 11, 1915, Serial No. 13,596. Divided and this application filed April 6, 1916.

Serial No. 85,260.

To all a bor/t it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM J. Gonzo, a citizen of the Unitet States,residing at Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery d State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Yarn- Treating Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to apparatus for treating yarn, and with respect to its more specific features to apparatus of the character referred to involving rolls for squeezing yarn. It has for its object to overcome some of the difficulties which have arisen in connection with prior machines.

One of ti e objects of the invention is to provide a practical construction of squeezing roll, the surface of which may be renewed without removing the entire roll from the machine.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a simple construction permitting the roll to be resurfaced readily by even unskilled operators.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide an efficient mechanical arrangement of squeezing rolls.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of ele mems and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

in the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views,-

Figure l is an elevation of an embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of Fi 1; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a portion of Fig. 1.

The machines herein referred to are generally in the form of rectangular vats containing various yarn treating liquids, such as water, dye, and various other solutions dependent upon the treatment to which the or that the machine remain idle until the rolls are repaired or renewed. This application is a division of application filed March 11, 1915, Serial No. 13,596 (1915), and reference may be had thereto for a disclosure of the complete machine. For the purposes of this case, it is sufficient to describe herein only a part of the machine of the prior case, and referring more specifically to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a tank or vat, in which the yarn treating liquid is contained. The yarn is carried through the liquid in the vat by aprons, the parts of two of such aprons adjacent the squeezing rolls being shown at 2, 2, it being understood that these aprons are automatically driven to convey the yarn through the liquid in the tank, and to deliver the yarn to the pair of squeezing rolls 3 and 4. In the present embodiment the yarn leaves the tank on the right hand side as the apron passes over the sprocket 5. Upon leaving the apron or conveyer at this sprocket, it passes from the machine between the squeezing rolls. T he rolls 3 and 4 are driven from the worm gear 6 through the shaft 7, the upper roll being turned by the gear 8, tak ing its motion from gear 9 on the shaft 7. The lower roll has a stationary bearing in the frame or frame pieces 10, but the upper roll has sliding box bearings 11 in guideways 12 in the frame pieces, and these box bearings are forced down by levers 13 rulcrumed on the frame piece 10, these levers having lugs 14; which press down the sliding boxes of the roller 3 by springs 15 secured to rods 16, pivoted at 17 in said frame pieces and bearing upon the eye 18 in the end of the lever 13. A nut and lock nut 19 determine the tension of the spring.

The construction of the rolls is indicated in Fig. 3. A slot is cut in the supporting metal portion 3, for example, and in this slot is removably secured, by means of a rod 20 of wood. the inner end or portion of a suitable sheet of textile material 21, which is to form a cover for the roll. The machine is then cloth or canvas, as it is found that when this material gets vvet, it is soft enough not to injure the yarn, and yet it has suliicient bite to grip the yarn and carry through the rolls easily. A a Wlll be manifest, 1t Wlll not be necessary to remove the rolls from the machine {or recovering, since the old covering maybe cutoii from them and the stick '20 may be pulled out or be driven out from one end and removed by teiv tape of a hammer.

During the operation of squeezing, the

rolls are rotated in directions tending to maintain the covering in coiled condition, these rolls, as it were, operating to continually Wrap or coil tie covering, so that the yarn received between the rolls may be etfectively squeezed Without causing the an? Wrapping 0r uncoiling of the covering. in

Fig. 3 the arovvs indicate the dire of the numeral 29. indicates the outer tr of the coiled covering in position rreely overlying or overlapping the turn, or portion ot the coil. therebeneath. The Worm Wheel (3 is driven by the Worm :23, in turn rotated from any suitable source of power.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made Wi hout departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying; drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

it is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements'ot the t scope of -he invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having descried my invention, what i claim as new and desire to secure by Letters l atent is;

l. in a yarn treating machine, a tank adapted to contain a yarn treating liquid, a pair of squeeze rolls, means adapted to con- Gopies of this patent vey yarn from said tank to ss d rolls, one of said rolls comprising a covering of absorbent material coiled therearound, one turn over lapping another, and means adapted to rotate said rolls in directions tending to main tain said covering in coiled condition during the squeezing operation.

in a yarn treating machine, a tank adapted to contain a yarn treating liquid, a pair of squeeze rolls, means adapted to convef. y from said tanlt to said rolls, one of said rolls comprising a covering of absorbent material coiled tlerearound, one turn overlapping another, an inner portion of said coiled covering being removably connected to its roll, the outer end of said co;- ering being free, and cans adapted to rotate said rolls in directions tending to maintain said covering in coiled condition during the squeezing operation.

3. In ayarn treating, machine, a tanl; adapted to contain a yarn treating liquid, a pair of squeeze rolls, means adapted to convey yarn from said tank to s rolls, one oi"- said rolls having a covering of absorbent material coiled therearound, one turn overlapping another, means adapted to rotate said rolls in directions tending to maintain said c vering in coiled condition during the squeezing; operation, and means adanted to yieldingly press one of said rolls toward the other.

l. he a new article of manufacture, squeezing roll for a yarn treatin machine, comprising a support and a cover, the latter comprising a sheet of coiled on said support and adapted to be readily uncoiled therefrom, one turn overlyingfreely on other.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a squeezing roll for a yarn treating machine composed of a support, and a cover, th cover composed of several thicknesses cloth or canvas, continuously w"- around the supporting structure and at one end thereto, the other end of the cov being unsecured.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a roll for a yarn treating machine comprising a suppor and a cover, the cover composeo of a textile sheet removably secured at one end to the support and Wrapped thereahout, the

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